Ian McElhinney’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Ian McElhinney has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Derry Girls.
Recurring themes

Driven
2019
Thriller · History

Deadfall
2012
Crime · Drama

My Son
2017
Drama · Thriller

A Conspiracy of Faith
2016
Crime · Drama

A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014
Crime · Drama

The Keeper of Lost Causes
2013
Thriller · Mystery

Hunting Season
2010
Mystery · Crime

Hacker
2016
Crime · Drama

Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
Dir. Lisa McGee · With Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Nicola Coughlan

When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
Dir. Anand Tucker · With Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott

Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne's Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.
Dir. Joan Rater, Tony Phelan · With Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Liev Schreiber

A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
Dir. Chris Baugh · With Nigel O'Neill, Susan Lynch, Józef Pawłowski

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
Dir. Colin McIvor · With Art Parkinson, Emily Flain, Toby Jones
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Dir. Danis Tanović · With Colin Farrell, Paz Vega, Christopher Lee
Sacrifice is the story of consultant surgeon, Tora Hamilton, who moves with her husband, Duncan, to the remote Shetland Islands, 100 miles off the north-east coast of Scotland. Deep in the peat soil around her new home, Tora discovers the body of a young woman with rune marks carved into her skin and a gaping hole where her heart once beat. Ignoring warnings to leave well alone, Tora uncovers terrifying links to a legend that might never have been confined to the pages of the story-books.
Dir. Peter A. Dowling · With Radha Mitchell, Rupert Graves, Ian McElhinney

Set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, Krypton follows Superman’s grandfather — whose House of El was ostracized and shamed — as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved world from chaos.
Dir. David S. Goyer · With Cameron Cuffe, Georgina Campbell, Shaun Sipos